After decades of conflict, including two of the largest regional land wars since the fall of the Soviet Union, rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a possible looming peace deal.

Armenia and Azerbaijan witnessed a bloody flashpoint in the otherwise largely peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union, with tensions culminating in a full-scale Azerbaijani invasion in 2020 and outright annexation of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2023. After several more war scares, the two countries announced progress in a possible peace treaty.